{"id":667,"date":"2013-07-03T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2013-07-03T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T20:09:17","slug":"beach-tennis-and-other-instant-coolness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2013\/beach-tennis-and-other-instant-coolness","title":{"rendered":"Beach Tennis and other instant coolness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to work, I came by a poster hawking <a title=\"Beach tennis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beach_tennis\" target=\"_blank\">beach tennis<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagined lots of aces, but wikipedia tells me I imagined wrong, and it&#8217;s more like beach volleyball with rackets.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I had to marvel how adding the word &#8220;beach&#8221; to any staid sport will suddenly, magically make it cool.\u00c2\u00a0 In order to increase global coolness (my contribution in the fight against climate change), I hereby present a few sports that could stand an extreme beach makeover.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beach Table Tennis<\/strong> &#8211; The player that&#8217;s faster retrieving balls gets +1 point, a point contested throughout the set<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beach Golf<\/strong> &#8211; Sand trap action in swimsuits!\u00c2\u00a0 A surefire revenue booster for the LPGA tour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beach Weightlifting<\/strong> &#8211; A sure win.\u00c2\u00a0 Spectators like injuries the way they like car wrecks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beach Skeet<\/strong> &#8211; In an event sponsored by Red Bull, the marksman is catapulted through the air and shoots ground targets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beach Curling<\/strong> &#8211; Lots and lots of broomwork!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any ohers you&#8217;d add to the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to work, I came by a poster hawking beach tennis.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagined lots of aces, but wikipedia tells me I imagined wrong, and it&#8217;s more like beach volleyball with rackets.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I had to marvel how adding the word &#8220;beach&#8221; to any staid sport will suddenly, magically make it cool.\u00c2\u00a0 In order to increase global coolness (my contribution in the fight against climate change), I hereby present a few sports that could stand an extreme beach makeover. Beach Table Tennis &#8211; The player that&#8217;s faster retrieving balls gets +1 point, a point contested throughout the set Beach Golf &#8211; Sand trap action in swimsuits!\u00c2\u00a0 A surefire revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}